Posts Tagged ‘us elections’

Even though the big states of New York, Texas and California have yet to have their primaries the battle for the Republican nomination is effectively over. Mitt Romney has been declared the winner by ...
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His original motivation for running for president appears to have been somewhere between flogging a book and having a bit of fun. But Herman Cain, confounding his own as well as pretty much everyone ...
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Inside San Francisco's W Hotel it might have seemed like a normal fundraiser. Two hundred wealthy Democrats were paying $5000 a time on Tuesday to attend a lunch with President Obama – up to $7,500 ...
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Ezra Klein, a columnist at The Washington Post, has written an interesting piece on why "Europe could decide the 2012 election". Klein writes that “the 2012 election is likely to be decided by the a...
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In his excellent piece on last night's Republican debate, our blogger Dr Tim Stanley gave me a little chill with a throwaway line in his first paragraph. After noting the ding-dong battle between fron...
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After last week’s humiliation of President Barack Obama in the midterm elections – in which the Republicans made huge gains at every level of government – you might think that the president woul...
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"The cause of America," wrote my countryman Tom Paine, "is in great measure the cause of all mankind". That statement now has a practical, financial truth which Paine couldn't have imagined in 1776. T...
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I assumed until this morning that Marco Rubio, the pro-life new senator-elect from Florida, was a Catholic. That's because I kept reading in articles that he was "a conservative Roman Catholic". Then ...
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It is a commonplace of reporting today's presidential elections in Afghanistan that the polling and its outcome will be influential, perhaps decisive, to the timetable for Western (and therefore Briti...
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